Cloud startup founder: personal plan margins are tiny, businesses are the real moneymaker
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-17
- David Crawshaw admits the personal plan of his cloud service runs on very thin margins.
- As scale grows, savings will be passed back into making the personal plan cheaper rather than pocketed.
- The business plan is the actual profit engine; a user meanwhile praised the pricing/resource model as his replacement for DigitalOcean after its 'shareholder value' turn.
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